Connector disconnects upon grouping

[emreg00]

Hi,

On Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 (Gnome/Linux, Fedora 12), when I want to group the small graph attached (created by copying nodes and connectors), two of the connectors go topleft of the page. In XML editor the connector still seems to be connected with the node.

If I correct the connectors and then save&close the file, upon reloading the file, the connectors again go wild.

I believe this behavior is closely related to what has been observed in #1028789 and #479553 but not quite the same (sort of a mixture of the two).

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Tested on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.48.2 and trunk revision 12106.

The connectors move when loading the file, and correcting it manually by moving the connector's end the its expected position doesn't solve the issue. But fixing by replacing the connector with a new one works.

Did you create the file with an older Inkscape version?

[emreg00 (emreguney)]

It is quite likely that I might have created this file with a previous version of Inkscape (~6 months ago).

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Lots of connector related bug have been fixed in 0.48.1 and 0.48.2, including disconnection issues. It looks like something created with an old Inkscape version now triggers a bug that you wouldn't see if the drawing were created with the latest Inkscape version.

Anyway, Inkscape should be able to handle it correctly.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Likely a duplicate of Bug #795627 “Connector between shapes is corrupted on load (stack order)”:

> But fixing by replacing the connector with a new one works.

The net result of recreating the connector is that it is stacked above the connected shapes (in z-order). One could also select all ellipses (via 'Edit > Find'), invert the selection, and raise the resulting selecting (all connectors) to the top. Note that even such a "fixed" version of the file still will trigger other, known regressions with connectors (many are still present in stable 0.48.4 and trunk).